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r Univ. of Orsgos Library Forecast Clearing tonight; partly cloudy Friday; high today 33-38; low tonight 22 27; high Friday 30-35. 52nd Year Two Sections Commission Planning Protest of Proposal To Drop Air Service By HADLEY ROFF Bulletin Start Writer Yesterday's city commission meeting, called initially to consid er opening, of an alley to the filter center location, swelled to the pro' portion of a major meeting before adjournment. A wide range of matters was touched upon by the five commis sioners present, from the with drawal of United Airlines service to the Bend-Redmond airport to the water rates of a local mill. Unanimous approval was given the suggestion of Mayor Hans. Slagsvold that the city file official protest with the Ovil Aeronautics Board against the announced dis continuance of the Bend-Redmond slop by United Airlines. . ' . The airline announced last week it intended to seek CAB permis sion to exclude Bend-Redmond and several other Northwest terminals from its schedule of flights. Request from Leonard Lundgren for permission to pipe water from the Tumalo Irrigation district to his mill through city mains was tabled by the commission pending a meeting with Lundgren. Suggestion that the mill discon tinue city water service and use water from Tumalo was advanced by Lundgren last week, Water Su perintendent W. P. Drost said. Drost said the mill operator is searching for some way to reduce his water bill, currently running over $600 monthly. The mill's bill Water Policy Changed to Permit Accommodation of School Needs , To. accommodate water. needa-t the new high school site, the city commission yesterday afternoon revised the standing water policy to allow for a six - inch connection and set the installation fee at $200. i . Prior to the amendment, the policy merely covered connections to four inches. Recommendation that the change be made was laid before the five commissioners present for yesterday's adjourned meeting by City Manager Walter T. Thompson. Installation of such a large con nection has been specified by the fire rating bureau for adequate fire protection to the school site, Thompson advised. The six-inch main will be com nected to the 10-inch one running on Alden avenue, the city mana ger said. Present for the adjourned meet ing was Bend School Superinten dent. R. E. Jewell, who reported on the agreement reached Tues day by the school board and Dr. J. M. McCarthy on opening an alley to the proposed site of the filter center. Jewell said the board "agreed to go along with Dr. McCarthy to the extent of $1000" for the im provement from Kansas street south to the site next to the li brary. Dr. McCarthy is owner of the property picked by the army engineers for the Central Oregon filter center. Only action taken by the com mission on this matter was to au thorize the city manager to sign an agreement with McCarthy and the contractor absolving the city of liability in the project. Suggestion for such a protective agreement was made to the com mission by City Attorney Harry A. English. He indicated such an agreement would require the con tractor to add an endorsement to his liability bond or insurance pro tecting the city from claims re sulting from possible blast dam age, tt is believed considerable blasting will be necessary to clear rock from the lenjth of the pro posed alley. A further proposal for financing water installation costs to the school location was made by Authorities Seek Missing Pair SEATTLE (UP) Indications were today that a missing Navy enlisted man and his 14-year-old stepdaughter still were alive and did not leap to their deaths from a ferry In Puget Sound. Police said the pair, Ray Whit- son, 33, and the girl, Joyce, may have left Seattle instead of com' mittlng suicide. A note left by Whitson in his abandoned auto found aboard the ferry WUlaia Monday night said he and the girl would Jump from the ferry into Puget Sound. No one saw them jump, police said. THE BEND for February was $045, it was re ined. Drost suggested the possibility of a rate reduction for the mill. City Manager Walter T. Thomp son said he wouldn't recommend the city authorizing the use of mains for water from an outlying irrigation district. Other commission business: Restored to $42,000 the amount to be set aside in the reservoir fund for the construction of a Pilot Butte Reservoir. Such an amount was specified fqr that purpose i'i the recent $500,000 bond issue, the bulk of which was used for con struction of the Awbrey heights reservoir. City Manager Walter T. Thompson requested that the com mission reaffirm the $42,000 figure and revoke a 1953 commission ac tion boosting the sum to $57,000. The amount for the second res ervoir was upped, commission minutes show, because of concern over rising construction costs. To this point, Mayor Hans Slagsvold remarked that Redmond recently contracted for a million gallon res ervoir to cost $28,580. Capacity of the Pilot Butte reservoir has been proposed for 600,000 gallons. The reservoir fund currently stands at $43,196. according to Thompson. Need for a second new reservoir was doubted by Water Superinten dent W. P. Drost, who said he thought the money could be bet ter spent for the extension of the parallel pipeline to the Bride creek intake. Thompson to the school superin tendent for " presentation to the school board. Thompson requested that the board appropriate funds to cover the difference between the cost of Installing service throughout the site and the revenue derived by the city over the next ten years, usual period for amortizing instal lation costs. Total cost for laying pipe throughout the campus site has been estimated at $2556.80, Thomp son reported. Revenues from the new school over the next decade would probably total $1667. It is the difference between these two figures, or $889.80, that Thompson requests the school board to absorb. The $200 connection fee, Thomp son explained, merely covers the cost of laying a main from an existing main to the property line. Agee Will Fly To Bend in Jet Unless storm conditions make the flight inadvisable, Brig. Gen. S. W. Agee, commander of the 9th Air Defense Division headquar tered at Geiger Field, Wash., will come to Central Oregon Friday In a jet plant. He is scheduled to speak before a Bend Chamber of Commerce sponsored forum luncheon at the Pine Tavern at noon. Gen. Agee will have as his topic, "The Mis sion of the Air Defense Com mand." Gen. Agee has command of fil ter center operations In the Pa cific Northwest, Including the new center that will be activated in Bend around June 1. Enlightened Public Opinion Now Recognizes Alcohol Victim as One Suffering a Disease (First of a series.) Did you ever go down one of the side streets in a town, large or small, and get approached by a seedy - looking fellow with a flushed face and shaky hands? Or do you have a friend who "can't leave It alone?" "Gimme a dime for a cup of coffee, mister," the first pleads, knowing very well and realizing that you know that It'll be a long, cold day before any restasrant or coffee company will receive any oart of the money you might give him. This unfortunate wretch may not be an ordinary bum, though. Chances are he's a victim of a disease, the disease of alcoholism, which each year reaps a big har vest of wrecked men and women. Thousands of persons who once were respected citizens roam the country, sleeping In flophouses. worrylne about the source of the next drink. The others, more fortunate fl- MnclaTry, i?p trp some sem Bend. Deschutes County. Oregon. Thursday. February 24. 19SS Bulletin WINN. Germany (IP, -Tom- munlst rioters, opposing West German , rearmament, - battled club-swinging police In the cen ter of .this capital city of the German Federal Republic today. The riots exploded while the West German Parliament was de bating ratification of the Paris arms treaty and the fiercely con troversial Franco German Saar agreement. The Red demonstrators were egged on by the Soviet Zone ra dio which sounded day long warnings against West German rearmament. Pledge to Fight Tax Cuts Made By Republicans By VINCKNT S. Itt'KKE United Press Staff Co rw pendent WASHINGTON (UP) All but 'two or three" Republican House members at a party caucus pledge today to stand firm against the Democrats' move to cut taxes by $20 per person. s On the basis of the showing, GOP Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. pre dicted the proposed tax cut, de nounced by President Eisenhower, would be stricken from a package tax bill. The package bill also includes extension of corporate and excise (sales) taxes due to expire on April 1. Martin said "most of the 203 Republican House members were present at the caucus but he hadn't counted them. Another source said an approximate count showed 160 members at the huddle, leaving about 43 unaccounted for. Democrats Confident The private Republican huddle was called to solidify party ranks prior to debate and a possible vote the tax bill . In the House at today's session. i. u , Democrats claimed they had enough votes to approve the tax cut despite President Eisenhower's warning it would be bad tor tne country. The Democrats figured to lose no more than 12 or 15 Dem ocratic votes and were counting on picking up a few from the Re publican side of the aisle. Martin said the GOP members were asked at the party conference to stand and be counted on how they would vote. He said all but two or three promised to vote against the tax cut. The proposed tax cut carried as a rider to an administration bill to extend present corporation and certain excise taxes has produced the angriest partisan row since Democrats took over Con gress Jan. 5. President Eisenhower at nis news conference accused the Dem ocrats of reaching the "heights of fiscal irresponsibility. He said their proposed tax cut would raise the federal deficit and threaten an inflationary spiral "the most in sidious thing that can happen to a free economy." Claims GOP "Hurt" Speaker Sam Rayburn retorted that it was Republicans who were irresponsible. He noted that the administration's tax revision bill passed last year gave tax relief to corporations and dividend income of stockholders but "didn't give the little folks anything." "They re hurt! That s why they're hollering and crying," Rep. Michael J. Kirwan (D-Ohio) said of Republican complaints about the tax bill. Kirwan has been chairman for years of the congres sional campaign committee charged with helping elect Demo- ocrats to the House. blance of appearances in their home communities, helped by rel atives, friends and neighbors who realize that alcohol has gained control and that these people need help. Realizing that alcoholism was a problem, a problem which was growing, a good deal of medical research in the field was started over a decade ago. Much of the significant research has been car ried on at two medical centers. Yale University and John Hopkins University hospitals. Prior to that time, the general imoression was that a man or woman who had become an alco holic was lacking in will power "Just can't Ieavp the stuff lone," was the common com ment. Around the start of World War n and shortly before, however, en lightened onlnlon began to realize that alcoholism was something be sides lack of intestinal fortitude. Tests on some unfortunate victims snowed fhey did not have ti drink CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend students, Q IcQV FofeOl Student Po1 The possibility of bringing sev eral European students of high school age to Central Oregon next year, under the American Field Service International Scholarships program, began to take shape this week with approval of the plan by the Bend high school faculty and the administration of the city schools, and yesterday by unani mous vote of the Bend high school student council. The plan is also being considered by Redmond, Prineville and Madras. Each com munity would sponsor one student. Consideration of the plan was prompted by the visit here last week of several foreign students who are studying in America this year under the Field Service pro gram. To sponsor a foreign student, ost to a school district is $650. This pays the transportation to America, provides the student with a health and accident policy and gives him $12 a month spending money. In return, a community sponsoring a student has the priv- ilege of selecting a typical Amer ican teen-ager to make a summer visit to Europe, to live in the home of a family under arrangements made by the -eturnee. Explanation Given Applications for a foreign stil- dent may be made by families through their high school children, according to J. Russell Acheson, principal. The American Field Service takes final responsibility for the selection of the family. Middle-class families are selected, and major qualifications are that they , be truly warm-hearted and understanding, capable of dealing with the problems of young people cheerfully and sensibly. The host family agrees to be financially re sponsible for the guest's food and lodging, and is expected to treat the visitor as a member of the family, sharing equally in the plea sures and duties of the home. The Bureau of Internal Revenue does not consider the student as a de pendent. . The.forcign sludents are care fully selected by the AFS. They must be between 16 and 18 years of age, above average academic standing, and have good health, outstanding personality and char acter and a sufficient knowledge of English. American students of similar qualifications, with the ex ception that two years of a for eign language are required, are selected for the summer visit in Europe. The cost of the program, about $450, must be carried by the community or high school, or by the family of the candidate. Jun iors are preferred, because they return to their school and commu- Two Paramedics Survive Ordeal ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UP) Two paramedics who weathered an Alaskan blizzard while dug in near the spot where 11 Navy men died in a plane crash came through in "fine shape" and will assist in recovering the bodies, the Air Force announced today. A helicopter hovered over the east slope of Mount Susitna yes terday and five men bailed out to assist M. Sgt.: F. R. Sackrider, Topeka, and Airman 1C R. L. Josephson, Grants Pass, Ore. The two paramedics had para chuted to the mountain, 35 miles northwest of here, Saturday near the wreckage of a Navy Neptune which crashed last Thursday en route to Elmendorf Air Force Base here. Sackrider and Josephson spent iart of their time battling a bliz zard which raged on the moun tain but had ample food and sur vival gear during their lonely stay. much to get into a sodden slate, that in effect their resistance to alcohol was low. Studies were started, financed in some part by leaders in the alco hol beverage industry and by oth er interested persons, to find out who an alcoholic is, physiological ly speaking. Now, . medical opinion is that thousands of persons In this coun try have an alltrgy to alcohol, not an allergy such as causes hives. but something in their makeups which causes alcohol to "hit" them harder than other porsons. Two drinks may be enough to "put them under." Alcohol anects these persons much in the same manner a sugar would react upon a diabetic. These authorities have come to the conclusion that Alcoholics Anonymous offers the best hope of curing .the disease. There's a group of active members of Alcoholics Anonvmmii here In Bend. What do they do? BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER nity after the summer visit, and can share their experiences with their fellow students. History Traced . The history of the American Field Service dates back to 1914 and the First World War, when It was founded as a volunteer ambu lance corps to serve with the French Army. When war started again in 1939, AFS was quickly re activated and young American vol unteers again drove ambulances on French battlefields. In . 1947, AFS veterans of both wars, moti vated by their experiences under fire with people of many nations, felt strongly that in working and llvlntr uilh nnnnla nna fmiMt i,n ' dorstanding Snd friendship. And so they voted that the AFS should be reborn in peace as an organi zation to promote good will among nations through the inter - change of teen-agers. If arrangements are completed according to the prescribed pro cedure, the students to come to Central Oregon will be selected from among the following coun tries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Por tugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. World Prayer Day Planned Here Friday World Day of Prayer, tradition ally the first Friday in Lent, will be observed tomorrow in Bend with a service starting at 2 p.m., at the Methodist church. Several local churches are participating in the program, and the public is in vited .to attend. Mrs. Bernice Towner will be organist for the service and Mrs. Albert Jorgensen will play a violin offertory. Meditations will be con ducted by Mrs. Criag Coyner of the Methodist church, . Mrs. Alva C. Goodrich of First Christian church, Mrs. H. J. Curl Sr. of First Presbyterian church and Mrs. J. E. Askew of Trinity Epis copal church. Mrs. William Nis- kanen will give the presentation of missions projects. The service will be similar to others to be held tomorrow in some 19.000 communities in the United States and in 119 countries around the world. Each year the national World Day of Prayer committee asks a woman or a group of women from one of the countries observing World Day of Prayer to write the service. The service for the 1955 observance was written by Miss Jorgellna l,ozada of Buenos Aires, Argen tina. One of the first two graduates of'Instltuto Model, now the Union Seminary, Miss Lozada was as signed responsibility for children's work among the various Disciples churches in Buenos Aires. She was ordained in 1930, and two years later became one of the very few Argentine women. pastors. Her in terest in children led her to open a kindergarten, and through the years she has continued in chil dren s work in addition to her reg ular pastoral duties. Women of various churches in stituted the practice of a regular annual observance to pray for a better world as early as 1887. The first World Day of Prayer was in 1927. Snow Reported Over Cascades Snow was falling over the Cen tral Oregon Cascades this morn ing, with flurries drifting into the Deschutes plateau. Highway crews reported that It was "snowing hard" at Govern ment Camp on the Mt. Hood route early In the day, with plows op erating and chains required. Sim ilar conditions existed at the Warm Springs junction. Only light snow was falling on the Santlnm divide, but chains were required. Plows were oper ating. The Willamette route was cov ered with packed snow that was well sanded. Chains were not re- luired. Snow was fnlllng at Che mult. Woman Protests Jet Plane Blast THE DALLES (UP) A blast from a low flying jet plane caused a cow to give birth to a calf which died, the sheriff's office here said today. Mrs. W. H. Moore, a farmer's wife, told sheriffs deputies yester- day the blast from the plane also caused the cattle to stampede and she thoutrht the world was coming fd an end. :MM?JWM C "'V. . l vj RIVER YIELDS BODY Located by P. G. Hundley and Hugh Dugan, who were working on the pageant arch piers, the body of Harry Clement was removed from the Deichutei river short ly before noon today. Pictured here placing the body in the boat are Lowell Wing, at left, and Fire Chief Vernon Carlon. Part of the arch pier is shown. Below, children view earlier grap- Elirfg- operations from a poiition on the upstream Gilchrist foot ridge. (Bend Bulletin Photos) : ' Body of Harry G. Clement Taken From River Late This Morning The body of Harry G. Clement, 70, janitor for two Bend churches who had been missing since Mon day, was found shortly before noon today, In the Deschutes river below the Drake Park footbridge. Clement on Monday wrote a long letter to his pastor, Rev. Dean Polndexter, and added a post script. In that postscript, Clement said he would end his life by jumping from "the footbridge." It is believed he Jumped from Pay Raise Now Seems Assured WASHINGTON (UP) Members of Congress were virtually assured today of pay raises of at least 50 per cent, from $15,000 to $2,500 a year. The Senate approved the 50 per cent, or $7500 annually, by a vote of 62 to 24 yesterduy. But the Sen ate pay hike was less than the $10,000 raise the House voted for last week. The same legislation also prom ised raises for federal judges and members of the Supreme Court, but again he two houses disagr.t-d on the amounts. Differences between the two bills must be adjusted by a Conference Committee. The $2500 difierence in House an Senate proposals for congressional salary hikes was offset in part by. a Senate provision to give each member of Congress the actual mileage cost of four round trips to his home state a year. This would be In addition to the 20 cents a mile liow allowed for one round trip a year. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn) manager of the Senate bill, said he expects the Conference Commit tee to reach an agreement quickly, although one of the House confer- ees, Rep. Francis E. Walter (D- Pa) ' said the Houte members f would Insist 6h t $23,000 salary. ,1 Sixteen Paget the Drake Park bridec. The bodv lodged , against one of the piers used in anchoring the Mirror Pond pageant arches. This morning, while crews with grappling hooks cruised over the rapidly lowering Mirror Pond, two men were at work sawing off the tops of the arch piers. As they worked on the east unit of the pair of piers, they spotted the body, head of which was bobbing above the water. Working on the arch pier, and locating the body were Hugh Du gan and P. G. Hundley. Cruising nearhy in a boat were Fire Chief Vernon Carlon and Lowell Wing. They brought the body to shore, at the east end of the Drake Park bridge. ' In his note to Rev. Polndexter, Clement left instructions as to the disposal of his property. He indi cated he was suffering from can cer. As the seurch got under way yesterday and continued this morning, the Mirror pond was re duced to expansive mud - flats. Grappling work was halted at dusk yesterday evening, and continued early this morning. Grappling crews had several times explored the area of the pageant piers, but because of the murky water were unable lo see the body. Because there are two foot bridges over the Deschutes In Bend, at Gilchrist avenue un stream and In the Drake, park area, there was some confuslor as to the spun Clement mentioned in his note. As a result, the search coverec' the entire Mirror Pond. Funeral arrangements have no' been made. OFF FOR BAHAMAS KINGSTON. Jamaica (UP) A suntanned Princess Margnre' alls today bbonrd the royal yacht Britannia for the Bahamas, last Hoo on her month-lone tour of British possessions In the Caribbean. High and Low Max. yesterday. 46 degree. Min. last night 28 degree. Sunset today. 5:47. Sunrise tomorrow. 6:49. .; "" No. 68 Effort Made To Heal Rift By EARNEST HOBERECHT . Untied Press Staff Corespondent BANGKOK, Thailand (UPlr-For-eign ministers of the United States, . Britain and Australia met private- ' ly here tonight in an effort , ,to patch up the widening rift between Washington and London over the Formosa crisis. ..; , The three got together after the Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza tion had agreed to set up a per- ' manent SEATO headquarters .:in Bangkok and had created three subcommittees to deal with Com munist subversion and military and economic problems.. '"' Formosa is outside the defense . area of SEATO but was very much In the thinking of the delegates at a dinner given by Secretary of State ' John Foster Dulles. 'Ills guests were Britain's Foreign Seo-'-'- retary Anthony Eden and Austral ia s Minister of External Affairs R. G. Casey. ' '" America Determined Authoritative sources said Dulles made it . clear that the United States is determined to fight for Formosa and that Red China will be in for a big surprise, and a bloody nose, it it thinks otherwise. Eden, these sources said, told Dulles the United States could count on Britain's help if war de veloped over Formosa, but that the Nationalist-held islands just off the mainland coast are a different story." ;' Prime Minister Winston Church- Over Formosa Ill, In a written statement to the , House of Commons In London yes- terday; said Britain will not be- , come involved in any fighting that . ' develops over the offshore Islands. Casey was pictured as urging Eden, at tonight's conference, to "take n strantr b nastuon as noasi- ble" to deter further ComlrinMsT' aggression. . v "" ''"v Strained Relation!! Britain has explained that she considers Matsu, Quemoy and oth- - er offshore islands to be Red Chin ese property, and therefore would not want to fight for them. ' . .. The thing principally evident here Is that Formosa has both Britain and the United States badly worried, not so much on the issue of ability to handle a Communist -attack as over the strain the situ ation has placed on Brltish-Amer-v ' ican relations. . Tills concern has largely over shadowed the work of the eight nation SEATO conference, which today voted to assign permanent representatives to the new head quarters here, giving each the rank of ambassador, -. Annual Settlers ? Meeting Planned; The annual meeting of settlers ' on the 1,850,000 acre Fort Rock Silver Lake Soil Conservation dls- ' trlct will be held on Tuesday, -March 1, at the Fort Rock grange, hall, with a special program planned. The meeting will get under wajf,, at 10:30 Tuesday morning with. Merrltt (Bud) Parks, district., chairman, presiding, and at noon a potluck lunch will be served. Opening feature of the program'' will be a speaking contest between Fort Rock and Silver Lake grade " school pupils. The afternoon will be devoted to business sessions and talks by' Emery Castle, extension service representative: Rudy Mayko, from the Pendleton office of the Soil Conservation service, and Marvin . Shearer, OSC irrigation specialist: The REA will also be represented. by a speaker, and it Is expected ' that the extension of the Mldstate Electric Cooperative, Inc., line , Into the Fort Rock-Silver Lake re gion will come in for considera tion mention. Bids for the con. structlon of this line will be re- ceived later this month. , Plans for the annual meeting of SCS district that embraces thei north one-third of Lake county were outlined here Wednesday by Dunne Crane, SCS district work! unit conservationist. Equal Pay Bill Z Passed by House SALEM (UP) The Oregon Sen? ite yesterday passed and sent to 'he House a bill to prohibit wage Incriminations based on sex. It upholds the principle of equal nav for equal work for both men md women. But it does allow higher wapes to men for work that cannot be performed as well by women.
